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Author : William McGregor
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Total Pages : 358 pages
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Download or read book Studies in Kimberley Languages in Honour of Howard Coate written by William McGregor and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Albert Burgman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781875946280
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Yulparija written by Albert Burgman and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claire Bowern
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192558498
Total Pages : 1179 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages written by Claire Bowern and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 1179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages is a wide-ranging reference work that explores the more than 550 traditional and new Indigenous languages of Australia. Australian languages have long played an important role in diachronic and synchronic linguistics and are a vital testing ground for linguistic theory. Until now, however, there has been no comprehensive and accessible guide to the their vast linguistic diversity. This volume fills that gap, bringing together leading scholars and junior researchers to provide an up-to-date guide to all aspects of the languages of Australia. The chapters in the book explore typology, documentation, and classification; linguistic structures from phonology to pragmatics and discourse; sociolinguistics and language variation; and language in the community. The final part offers grammatical sketches of a selection of languages, sub-groups, and families. At a time when the number of living Australian languages is significantly reduced even compared to twenty year ago, this volume establishes priorities for future linguistic research and contributes to the language expansion and revitalization efforts that are underway.
Author : Claire Bowern
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027295115
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Australian Languages written by Claire Bowern and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses controversial issues in the application of the comparative method to the languages of Australia which have recently come to international prominence. Are these languages ‘different’ in ways that challenge the fundamental assumptions of historical linguistics? Can subgrouping be successfully undertaken using the Comparative Method? Is the genetic construct of a far-flung ‘Pama-Nyungan’ language family supportable by classic methods of reconstruction? Contrary to increasingly established views of the Australian scene, this book makes a major contribution to the demonstration that traditional methods can indeed be applied to these languages. These studies, introduced by chapters on subgrouping methodology and the history of Australian linguistic classification, rigorously apply the comparative method to establishing subgroups among Australian languages and justifying the phonology of Proto-Pama-Nyungan. Individual chapters can profitably be read either for their contribution to Australian linguistic prehistory or as case studies in the application of the comparative method.
Author : Laurent Dousset
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781463740412
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Australian Aboriginal Kinship written by Laurent Dousset and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook brings the principles of human kinship in general, and Australian Aboriginal kinship in particular, closer to the reader in an understandable and pedagogic way. Aimed at a large public, including anthropologists, the handbook is divided into four parts: the historical and ethnographic background of important concepts such as 'culture', 'hunter-gatherer societies' etc.; the basic tools and notions needed to understand kinship (terminology, marriage, descent and filiation); an ethnographic analysis of the Australian Western Desert kinship and notions such as 'family', 'household' and 'domestic group'; a presentation of social organisation, in particular generational moieties, patri- and matrimoieties, sections and subsections. The concluding chapter discusses in a critical fashion the concept of kinship itself and elaborates on the idea of relatedness as a meaningful expansion.
Author : Barbara Josephine Jones
Publisher : Pacific Linguistics College of Asia and Pacific the Australian National University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Wangkajunga written by Barbara Josephine Jones and published by Pacific Linguistics College of Asia and Pacific the Australian National University. This book was released on 2011 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Haspelmath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199255911
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The World Atlas of Language Structures written by Martin Haspelmath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-21 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World Atlas of Language Structures is a book and CD combination displaying the structural properties of the world's languages. 142 world maps and numerous regional maps - all in colour - display the geographical distribution of features of pronunciation and grammar, such as number of vowels, tone systems, gender, plurals, tense, word order, and body part terminology. Each world map shows an average of 400 languages and is accompanied by a fully referenced description ofthe structural feature in question.The CD provides an interactive electronic version of the database which allows the reader to zoom in on or customize the maps, to display bibliographical sources, and to establish correlations between features. The book and the CD together provide an indispensable source of information for linguists and others seeking to understand human languages.The Atlas will be especially valuable for linguistic typologists, grammatical theorists, historical and comparative linguists, and for those studying a region such as Africa, Southeast Asia, North America, Australia, and Europe. It will also interest anthropologists and geographers. More than fifty authors from many different countries have collaborated to produce a work that sets new standards in comparative linguistics. No institution involved in language research can afford to bewithout it.
Author : Thomas Ennever
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110752433
Total Pages : 795 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Ngardi written by Thomas Ennever and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ngardi is a highly endangered language with fewer than 10 remaining speakers and is no longer being acquired by children. Despite the limited circulation of a draft dictionary (Cataldi, 2011), there has been no published reference grammar of this language. Upon publication, this work will constitute the most comprehensive grammar of any Ngumpin-Yapa language. The Ngardi language exhibits many of the same typologically interesting features first identified in the related language Warlpiri—namely phenomena of non-configurational syntax and null anaphora. This grammar also brings to light a number of unique properties which will be of interest to linguistic typologists and formal theorists. The registration of arguments both through case marking on free NPs as well as in pronominal enclitics is similar to Warlpiri but differs in its detail—particularly in the ability to register various non-core cases (e.g. locative and allative) as ‘arguments’ in the pronominal complex. Within the verbal system, Ngardi is notably for a large number of verbal inflections (~20) which mark various distinctions in tense, aspect and mood, as well as associated motion and speaker-centric directionality. Ngardi exhibits a highly articulated system of complex predication, covering both complex verb and serial verb constructions. Other typologically interesting aspects of the language include the presence of dedicated apprehensional constructions and interesting interactions between negation and clausal modality. The descriptive value of this grammar is enhanced by its sustained regional comparison of the linguistic features of Ngardi with those of neighbouring Ngumpin-Yapa and Western Desert languages. This grammar (and a forthcoming dictionary) of Ngardi will be of great significance to both those few remaining Ngardi speakers as well as the next generation of Ngardi people for whom accessible published materials will be an invaluable resource.
Author : Alan McCulloch
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Total Pages : 1224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art written by Alan McCulloch and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Widely regarded as the authoritative reference on Australian art with its extensive colour plates and 4500 entries. Fully illustrated with more than 700 images on 1200 pages. Entries include: Aboriginal art, Abstractionism, art links, sculptors, photographers, craft workers and printmakers and much more.
Author : William B. McGregor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134396023
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia written by William B. McGregor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kimberley, the far north-west of Australia, is one of the most linguistically diverse regions of the continent. Some fifty-five Aboriginal languages belonging to five different families are spoken within its borders. Few of these languages are currently being passed on to children, most of whom speak Kriol (a new language that arose about half a century ago from an earlier Pidgin English) or Aboriginal English (a dialect of English) as their mother tongue and usual language of communication. This book describes the Aboriginal languages spoken today and in the recent past in this region.
Author : Karen H. Ebert
Publisher : Lincom Europa
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Athpare written by Karen H. Ebert and published by Lincom Europa. This book was released on 1997 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tsutomu Akamatsu
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 450 pages
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Download or read book Japanese Phonetics written by Tsutomu Akamatsu and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Claire Bowern
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110278189
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book A Grammar of Bardi written by Claire Bowern and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-08-31 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bardi language is currently spoken by fewer than 10 people. The language is a member of the Nyulnyulan family, a small non-Pama-Nyungan family in northwest Australia. This book is a reference grammar of the language. The 16 chapters include information on phonetics and phonology, nominal and verbal morphology, and syntax, as well as an ethnographic sketch of traditional life. A selection of texts is also included. It is the first published full study of a Nyulnyulan language.
Author : William B. McGregor
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110870878
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Verb Classification in Australian Languages written by William B. McGregor and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with systems of verb classification in Australian Aboriginal languages, with particular focus on languages of the north-west. It proposes a typology of the systems according to their main formal and semantic characteristics. It also makes some proposals concerning the historical origins and grammaticisation of these systems, and suggestions regarding the grammatical relations involved. In addition, an attempt is made to situate the phenomenon of verb classification within the context of related verbal phenomena such as serial verb constructions, nominal incorporation, and complex predicates.
Author : Barry J. Blake
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027247490
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Historical Linguistics 2001 written by Barry J. Blake and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a selection of papers from the 15th International Conference on Historical Linguistics held in Melbourne 13-17 August 2001, hosted by the Linguistics Program at La Trobe University. The papers range from the general theoretical to the study of particular languages and embrace most areas of linguistics, particularly morpho-syntax.
Author : William McGregor
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027230250
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book A Functional Grammar of Gooniyandi written by William McGregor and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phonetic, phonological, morphologic, semantic, and syntactic description of Gooniyandi, a language of the southern Kimberleys; relationship with nearby languages, especially Bunuba; kinship terms.
Author : Lynne Hume
Publisher : Melbourne University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Ancestral Power written by Lynne Hume and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploration of the concepts surrounding the Aboriginal Dreamtime - or The Dreaming - from a Western perspective. Examines a range of existing literature on Aboriginal cosmology and spiritual practices, as well as studies of Aboriginal art, anthropological and ethnomusicological data, and statements from a diverse geographical sphere of Aboriginal people. Includes notes, bibliography and index. Author is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Studies in Religion at the University of Queensland. She has previously written 'Witchcraft and Paganism in Australia'.
